Drinking-cup.



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DRINKING cuP.- APPLICATION FILED AUGJ. I918.

Patented Mar. 11,1919.

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4 ATTORNEYS VICTOR EMANUEL FERMIER, 0F FORNEY, TEXAS.

DRINKING-CUP.

Application filed August 2. 1918. Serial No. 247,991.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, VICTOR EMANUEL FER- MIER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Forney in the countyof Kaufman and State ofTexas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDrinking-Cups, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generally to sanitary personal waterholding devices, and more particularly to drinking cups and holderstherefor, my object being the provision of a small holder 'in the formofa case arranged to be conveniently carried upon the person and toermanently hold and protect a paper drin ing cup or Water holder ofother material capable of being made impervious to moisture and of afoldable nature adapting the same to opening and collapsing movementswith the opening and closing of the case, as well as one which when openwill facilitate the drinking of water therefrom.

A further object of the invention is to provide a drinking cup holder ofsuch a de sign that a number of drinking cup papers can be held inplace, so that the uppermost one of the papers may be removedafterbecoming soiled, to present a fresh and clean paper for subsequentuse.

With the above eneral outlines in mind, my invention resides in theholder to be now described with respect to the accompanying drawing,forming a part of the specification and wherein- Figure 1 is aperspective view of the holder and drinking receptacle in .open positionfor use,

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section taken therethrough in the closedposition,

Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of the receptacle blank, and

Fig. 4 is a similar view of a'slightly modified form of blank.

Referring now to these figures, the case or holder as proposed by myinvention consists of two flat rectangular side plates 10 and 11 whichin the closed position, extend approximately parallel to one another andin closely contiguous relation so as to occupy minimum s ace and thusadapt the same to ready an convenient support within the pocket.

These side plates 10 and 11 are connected alon one longitudinal edge bya hinged connection at 12, and one of the side plates, for

instance the plate 10 as seen in Fig. 2, has a pivoted U-shaped springcatch 13 adjacent its free edge arranged for engagement over the freeedge of the plate 11 in order to fasten the plates in the closedposition seen, and at the same time provide for ready detachment andmovement to the open position seen in Fig. 1 which may be facilitatedfor instance by the presence of a spring 14 in connection with the hinge12 if so desired.

One of the side plates, for instance the side plate 11 as seen in- Fig.2, has integral struck-up portions 15 providing openings for thereception of the angular extremities of a wire bent. to form a handle16, the said angular extensions 17 of which are movable as on pivotswithin the openings of the holder side 11 so that the handle 16 may beflattened against the side plate 11 in disuse. Each of the side plates10 and 11 have flanges 18 alon their free upper edges and their ends,whic flanges abut one another in the closed position so as to properlyspace the side plates apart and form a housing for the folded cupcontained therein.

The flanges 18 along the u per or free edges of the side plates 10 an 11have reverting extensions 19 as best seen in Fig. 2, which extend aloportions of the inner faces of the said side plates adjacent their freeedges and which serve as clasps for the receptacle carried within theholder and to be now described.

The reverting extensions 19 are resilient to a certain degree andtherefore act as holders whereby the paper on is held in place. The sameresilient qua ity of these extensions, enables a soiled cup to be takenout and a new one slipped in place. Similarly, if it be so desired, aplurality of reserve cups can. be held in the older at one time. Thisfeature is of a special advantage when taking long trips; at such timesoiled cups can be readily taken out, leaving a fresh one'in place.

As seen in Fig. 3 the receptacle generally indicated at 20 in Figs. 1and 2 is formed from a blank 21, the rectangular body 22 of which formsone side wall of the receptacle and is connected by triangular endpieces 23 and 24 to extensions '25 and 26 which cooperate to form theother side wall of the rece tacle. The blank body 22 and the extensions25 and 26 have flaps 27 along their inner edges which fold mwardly alongdotted lines 28 and are secured to one anone another. These severallappi portions are secured by any suitable adhesive and it will be notedthat in so folding the extensions 25 and 26, they are bent along dottedlines 29 between the same and the trian lar end pieces 23 and 24 and thelatter simi arly bent along dotted lines 30 between the same and theblank body 22 This forms substantially a boat-shaped arrangement, theside walls of which are movable toward and away from one another byvirtue of the yieldin of the end pieces 23 and 24 through their f0 dingmovement upon the intermediate dotted lines 31 thereof, it being notedthat the extensions 25 and 26 stand at different angles with respect tothe body blank 22, the right angular extension of the part 26 bringingabout the increased area of the end piece 24 as regards the end. piece23.

It will also 'be noted that both the blank body 22 and the extensions 25and 26 project at their outer edges intermediate the outer edges of theend pieces 23 and 24 so that the complete receptacle will have u wardlyprojecting lips 32 along its upper side portions for engagement beneaththe reverting extensions 19 of the flanges along the free edge of theholder.

As seen in Fig. 3, the end pieces 23 and 24 of the blank have theirouter edges cut away to bring about the triangular form above mentioned.This is not essential however as the end pieces may be of the form shownin Fig. 4 with their outer ed es or portions foldable inward along dotlines 33 to substantially the form seen in Fig. 3. Ineitherform it isobvious that by virtue of the relatively great area of one end piece,

as compared to that of the other, the end' piece 24 of the receptaclewill stand outwardly at an inclined angle as seen' in Fig.

1 when the holder is opened to such an extent as to draw the other endpiece 23 outwardly as far .as it will expand. In this way theoutstanding end piece 24 forms a very convenient lip engaging portionduring the drinldng operation.

It is thus obvious that my invention forms a hi hly sanitary drinkingarrangement in whic the water receptacle is exposed only at'such time asit is actually in use and is protected at all othertimes by means of the7 older so asto adapt it to be readily carried upon the person from laceto place without fear of contamination.

'I claim:

1. The combination of a holder or casing including hinged side plateshaving bent portions forming clasping members adjacent their free edges,and a foldable impervious fluid holding receptacle within the holderhaving portions engaged by the said bent clasping portions whereby toremovably connect the receptacle with the holder and bring about afolding and unfolding movement thereof with closing and openingmovecomprising a body having angularly d1s-.

posed extensions at the ends thereof and in v termediately foldable endpieces connecting the same with 'said extensions, said body portion andsaid extensions having inwardly extending cooperating flanges movableinto face to face contact with one another when the extensions arefolded into overlapping relation oppositely and inclined with respect tosaid body portion, one of said extensions projecting at a greater anglewith' respect to the bodv than the other extension whereby to increasethe area of one of said end pieces with respect to the other, for thepurpose de-' scribed. v

4. A fluid holding receptacle having a pair of inclined side walls withend webs connecting the side walls and foldable to permit of yieldingmovement of the side walls with respect to one another, one of said endwalls being of greater area than the other and extending outwardly at anangle when the last mentioned end wall is fully opened.

VICTOR EMANUEL FERMIER.

Witnesses:

F. H. LAYDEN, .W. MODEM.

